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🗓️ 6 June 2025
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In honour of the 58th anniversary of soldiers in war running to help, we bring you a story of twisting journeys and changing identities.
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0:00.0 | Hey, listeners, I'm Ishi Harmon and this is Israel's story. Exactly 58 years ago, on June 7, |
0:10.0 | 1967, on the third day of the Six-Day War, Israeli forces enter Jerusalem's old city and reached the Kotel, the Western Wall. |
0:20.0 | It was right then and there that they heard a cry for help that is the starting and reached the Kotel, the Western Wall. |
0:23.7 | It was right then and there that they heard a cry for help that is the starting point of one of the most popular and memorable episodes we've ever aired. |
0:29.8 | So today, in honor of that anniversary, |
0:32.9 | we're delighted to re-release Operation Hulda. |
0:37.2 | Here we go. |
0:38.7 | Last year, while working on a piece about the song, |
0:41.7 | Yerushalheim of Zahav for our mixtape series, |
0:44.7 | I went to interview Shuli Natan, |
0:47.1 | the singer who originally sang it back in 1967. |
0:53.7 | When I showed up at her house in Ranaana, I discovered that a friend of hers, a heavy-set white-haired gentleman, was randomly joining us for the interview. |
1:06.8 | After we were done, he walked me to the door. |
1:10.4 | Call me, he said. |
1:11.8 | I have a story for you. |
1:14.9 | A few months later, we met up. |
1:17.7 | My name is Benacham A.B. Levi Levi. |
1:22.5 | I was born in April, 1945, right at the end of World War II. |
1:28.8 | My parents were Holocaust survivors, |
1:32.3 | my dad from Italy, |
1:33.7 | mom from Germany. |
1:35.8 | Both of them escaped the Nazis clutch |
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